November?!?! Seriously.

Whew - one day you wake up and it is No-frickin'-vember.
Since I've been averaging about a blog a month, I guess I should make it a good one.

We have been training a new dessert person at the restaurant. I feel like she is getting it, but she is changing and adapting the station to her own ways (which gives me a weird feeling as a "trainer"). She has picked up some of the things that have been harder for others to pick up, but still gets flustered when the tickets hit hard. Between the pastry chef and I, we have been getting her on track, pulling 1 1/2 shift days and helping her with her speed. The toughest part for me is not taking over when I see something that can be done more efficiently. This week, she is on vacation, going to see her parents in California. I'll be working Thurs, Fri and Sat nights. Altough I'm not happy about that, I guess there are worse things. At least I get to go on vacation Sunday through Tuesday with my dad on the annual fishing/not fishing trip.
The pastry chef said she would help the new dessert girl last Saturday night (since her boyfriend was working Saturday night too) which gave me a Saturday night off for once. We had been planning on going west with friends who have newly acquired a mountain love shack and hightailed it to Sparta, NC for an overnight (not really a whole weekend). We relaxed, yet accomplished too, while we were there. We tasted bad North Carolina Wine. We went canoeing. We visited their neighbors' pottery shop. The weather was just how mountain weather should be this time of year - dipping into the 30s and 40s overnight and just being sunny but refreshing during the day.
Other than that - it has been work work work. I put in 108 hours over the last two weeks.
Also during the last two weeks, a little bit of salary depression. Gone are the days of dinners out on a whim, buying things without thinking. In are crazy hours and paying the bills. American dream, right? At least I'm not as stressed.
Last night we met friends for dinner that we hadn't seen in a while. A good couples group where everyone pitched in for a good meal. Kel came back for dinner from Wilson, where he is working all week.
One of these days the tires are going to come in for the car and I can stop driving on the donut. Won't that be peachy!